When liberalism is allowed to go untreated.
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NYC To Ban Hot Dogs and Processed Meats To Improve Climate | KFI AM 640
When liberalism is allowed to go untreated.
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NYC To Ban Hot Dogs and Processed Meats To Improve Climate | KFI AM 640
And then those street vendors are OUT of a job! So are the suppliers.
The Democrats are truly morons with NO thought process of the unintended consequences of their FAILED policies!
Money Laundering / Racketeering 101
California Demands Restaurants Charge Customers 1% 'Climate Change' Fee
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/s...?itok=7EoihBa5
"Well I live in California and I don’t know if you know this or not it’s pretty freaking expensive here."
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Did NYC Ban Hot Dogs?
Government-run facilities in New York City are definitely cutting back on processed meats.
DAN EVON
- PUBLISHED 25 APRIL 2019
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New York City is set to ban hot dogs and processed meats in an effort to combat climate change.
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What's True
New York City announced a "Green New Deal" in April 2019 that would reduce the amount of processed meat purchased by government-run facilities such as hospitals, schools, and correctional facilities.
What's False
New York City did not ban hot dogs outright. Restaurants, hot-dog stands, grocery stores, and other privately owned businesses will still be able to sell hot dogs.
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On 22 April 2019, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city’s “Green New Deal,” an “audacious plan to attack global warming on all fronts.” While this package of investments and new legislation covered several approaches to reduce emissions by nearly 30 percent by the year 2030, a number of outlets focused their headlines on one specific fast-food item: hot dogs.
An article published on iHeartRadio’s platform, for instance, was misleadingly entitled “NYC To Ban Hot Dogs and Processed Meats To Improve Climate.” As this article and others like it circulated on socialmedia, many viewers apparently stopped reading after the headline and came away with the belief that hot dogs had been banned city-wide:
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One Twitter user wrote: “NYC Mayor – you just made enemies of a lot of NYC vendors who sell great hot dogs, the citizens & visitors who love them! Repeat: You will make NYC a ghost town by 2030 if you continue this ridiculous green deal! New Yorkers, speak up!”
Hot dogs are not being banned in New York City.
Headlines such as “NYC To Ban Hot Dogs and Processed Meats To Improve Climate” are misleading for two reasons.
First, hot dogs are not being banned throughout the city. The city government plans to reduce the purchase of processed meats consumed at city-run facilities, such as hospitals, public schools, and correctional facilities, but this policy will have no effect on vendors, restaurants, grocery stores, or any other privately owned businesses that sell hot dogs, or on their customers who eat them.
Second, the city’s plan to reduce the consumption of hot dogs is only partly based on an effort to “improve climate.” NYC’s “Green New Deal” policies are part of the city’s “OneNYC 2050:
Building a Strong and Fair City” strategy. While these policies address climate-change issues, they also deal with community well-being and the general health of the city’s population. The section of OneNYC 2050 dealing with processed meats can actually be found in the “Healthy Living” portion of this strategy. More specifically, the section dealing with processed meats explains that reducing the consumption of hot dogs will lower the risk of heart disease and cancer.
Here’s the relevant section of OneNYC 2050 (emphasis ours):
ADOPT MORE SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION PRACTICES IN CITY GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
The City will shift away from goods that have an outsized impact on the environment and identify opportunities to reduce waste and cut GHG emissions throughout City government.
Through updates to our Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) and executive action, we are ending the purchasing of unnecessary single-use plastic foodware, reducing the purchasing of beef, and phasing out the purchasing of processed meat.
Single-use plastic foodware — including straws, cutlery, cups, plates, bowls, and trays — are designed to be used once and then thrown away. These petroleum-based products are a threat to our neighborhoods, waterways, and climate. The City is ending the purchasing of unnecessary single-use plastic foodware, switching to compostable, reusable, or recyclable alternatives while maintaining a sufficient supply of single-use plastic foodware for those who need it. And we will work with City Council to expand these requirements to private businesses.
Building on the success of implementing Meatless Mondays at all New York City public schools, the City will reduce the purchasing of beef by 50 percent. Beef has a relatively high environmental footprint compared to poultry, pork, and plant-based foods. Beef cattle, managing manure, and manufacturing fertilizer produces nitrous oxide and methane, two climate-warming pollutants 298 and 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, respectively.
Processed meat consumption is linked with increased risk of cancer and is often high in saturated fat and sodium which is linked with heart disease. This policy would offer health benefits to the most vulnerable New Yorkers.
So New York City plans to reduce the consumption of processed meats at city-run facilities such as hospitals, public schools, and correctional facilities. But this plan will not “ban” hot dogs in the city. Restaurants, hot dog stands, grocery stores, and other privately owned businesses will still be able to sell hot dogs in the city.
- PUBLISHED 25 APRIL 2019
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What’s behind a new climate surcharge coming to your restaurant bill in CaliforniaQuote:
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Janelle BitkerApril 24, 2019 Updated: April 24, 2019 5:24 p.m.
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https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/01/70/...55/7/420x0.jpgKaren Leibowitz (left) and Anthony Myint, founders of the Perennial Farming Initiative, are supporting a program that would charge restaurant diners extra to fund environmentally friendly farming practices.Photo: Stephen Lam / Special to The Chronicle 2015
Some California restaurants will put another surcharge on their bills later this year — but this time, it won’t be for service or employee benefits.
It will be to fight climate change.
The initiative, announced Wednesday, is called Restore California Renewable Restaurants, and it will allow restaurants statewide the option of charging diners an additional 1%. They money would go toward California’s Healthy Soil Program, which helps farmers transition to methods that put carbon back in the soil.
It’s a partnership between the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the California Air Resources Board and the Perennial Farming Initiative, a San Francisco nonprofit.
“Farmers and ranchers have long been on the forefront of the battle against climate change,” Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross said in a statement. “This partnership is an opportunity for eaters and buyers to share in land-based solutions.”
Karen Leibowitz and Anthony Myint, a married couple who are founders of the Perennial Farming Initiative, first got the state’s attention last fall during the Global Climate Action Summit, when their other nonprofit, Zero Foodprint, led more than 40 Bay Area restaurants in going carbon neutral for a week. They’re also restaurateurs known for Mission Chinese Food, Commonwealth and their now-closed environmentally minded spot called the Perennial.
They’ll act as a liaison between the state and restaurants for Restore California, recruiting owners for the program. So far, Myint said several high-end Bay Area restaurants have verbally committed to participating. That includes Dominique Crenn’s restaurants Atelier Crenn, Petit Crenn and Bar Crenn.
“I’m a strong advocate for fighting climate change and I’m really trying to do my part to find little things we can do to make things better,” Crenn said.
Leibowitz and Myint said they hope to sign on 200 restaurants statewide by the end of 2019. The program should begin by early fall.
While the surcharge will be added to every bill at participating restaurants, diners will be able to opt out by telling their server to remove it.
Mission Chinese Food added a similar charge back in August as a test run, and Myint said no one has opted out yet.
“If 1 percent of restaurants in California were part of the program, that would create as much as $10 million per year in funding for these farming practices,” he said.
Historically, the approach toward supporting environmentally beneficial practices was to expect ethical consumers to pay more for certain goods.
Over the three years, they ran their climate-conscious restaurant the Perennial, Leibowitz and Myint realized that one restaurant can’t possibly change the system fast enough.
“(Restore California) is not waiting for the market to notice and to push people toward better choices,” Leibowitz said. “It’s directly funding carbon farming.”
Janelle Bitker is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: janelle.bitker@sfchronicle.comTwitter: @janellebitker
https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaura...r-13792350.php
GO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE IN FILTHY CHINA AND INDIA!
Totally true that the New York City Mayor is banning hot dogs. Not a total ban, he is selecting targeted areas but they are banned in those places he has chosen.
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NYC'S MAYOR DEFINITELY DIDN'T JUST BAN HOT DOGS
BY JUST LUNNING ON 4/26/19 AT 9:31 PM EDT
01:08New York City Mayor de Blasio Declares Measles A Public Health Emergency
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Earlier this week New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a Green New Deal for the city, an ambitious plan to reduce NYC emissions by nearly 30 percent in the next 10 years. While it sounds like a good plan on paper, social media was abuzz when early reports made it appear as though the mayor was to get New York’s third-most iconic food: hot dogs.
De Blasio’s Green New Deal intends to improve the health New Yorkers by lowering the number of processed meats, such as hot dogs as found in city-run locations, like prisons, schools and hospitals.
Processed meats are often high in saturated fat and sodium, making the consumption of those foods quite carcinogenic and certainly not ideal for anyone to eat regularly.
Despite the food portion of the Green New Deal exclusively affecting city-run locations, early reports on the topic by websites like iHeartRadio, among other outlets, implied in headlines that this was a city-wide ban on hot dogs. While that isn’t the case, were it true, the ban would put 1000s of New Yorkers out of work, and destroy businesses like the Brooklyn and East Village-based hot dog-centric restaurant chain, Crif Dogs.
The false sentiment behind the headlines was disliked enough to spread the idea across social media like wildfire and Twitter users were not happy with the idea of a hot dog-less New York.
One user joked on Twitter: “The world famous Nathan[‘s] Hotdog eating contest will NOW move from Coney Island to Atlantic City”
Many comments similarly criticized the idea of a city-wide hot dog ban for being un-New York.
Luckily for vendors and the various businesses that sell hot dogs, this “ban” only applies to city-run establishments. Hot dog stands, restaurants grocery stores and other privately owned businesses will still be able to sell hot dogs in New York to their heart's content.
https://www.newsweek.com/hot-dogs-ne...blasio-1407539
New York's "Green New Deal" To Phase Out Red Meat By 50%https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...ut-red-meat-50
Thu, 04/25/2019 - 22:15
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New York City's recently-approved "Green New Deal" (not to be confused with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's environmental wish-list) will slash the amount of red meat served in municipally-run facilities by half in order to combat climate change, according to Breitbart's Josh Caplan.
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The $14 billion "Green New Deal" will phase out purchases of processed meats in city-run schools, hospitals and correctional facilities by 2040, amid an overall cut in purchases of 50 percent. New York would be the first city in the world to adopt such a policy, and was announced after New York Schools adopted "Meatless Monday" in an effort to encourage the consumption of less meat.
Chloe Waterman, who serves as Program Manager for the Climate-Friendly Food Program at Friends of the Earth, said of De Blasio’s proposal in a statement: “New York City is strengthening its climate leadership by acknowledging the importance of slashing consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions associated with factory farmed meat. Eliminating processed meat and cutting red meat purchases will pay dividends for the health of future generations and the planet.” -Breitbart"We applaud Mayor de Blasio, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, and all of the advocates who made today’s announcement possible. We hope other cities will soon follow suit, said Waterman.
De Blasio (D) said on Monday during the Green New Deal announcement on Monday that he also plans to introduce a bill banning the construction of glass skyscrapers in an effort to reduce citywide greenhouse emissions by 30%.
"We are going to ban the classic glass and steel skyscrapers, which are incredibly inefficient," said the Mayor on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Monday morning.At one point during that press conference, Mark Chambers, director of the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, chimed in to clarify that there would be no prohibition on buildings made from glass. “I want to call out that it doesn’t mean that buildings can’t use glass anymore,” he said. And the mayor himself followed the “ban” language with a less bold proclamation.
“If a company wants to build a big skyscraper,” he said, “they can use a lot of glass if they do all the other things needed to reduce the emissions.” In other words, skyscrapers made out of glass and steel will not be banned; instead, they will be required to meet certain energy-efficiency standards. -Curbed
As part of the Green New Deal, New York will power all of the city's operations with energy generated from clean sources, such as Canadian hydropower. The city is also rolling out the mandatory recycling of organics, congestion traffic pricing, and phasing out city-wide purchases of single-use plastic utensils.
The so-called "Green New Deal" - or Climate Mobilization Act, was passed last Thursday in a 45-2 vote.
A new initiative among restaurants in California will charge customers a 1% tax to combat global warming.
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California Restaurants Charging 1% Global Warming Tax
A new initiative among restaurants in California will charge customers a…
Restaurants MAY OPT IN.
Customers MAY OPT OUT.
What’s behind a new climate surcharge coming to your restaurant bill in California
"Leibowitz and Myint said they hope to sign on 200 restaurants statewide by the end of 2019. The program should begin by early fall.
While the surcharge will be added to every bill at participating restaurants, diners will be able to opt out by telling their server to remove it."